Kenneth Irwin Shine

Kenneth Irwin Shine (born January 30, 1935) is an American cardiologist, physiologist, academic administrator, and health policy leader. He was president of the Institute of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine, from 1992 to 2002, and later served as executive vice chancellor for health affairs of the University of Texas System.

Education, medical training, and academic career Shine earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1957, an A.B. degree in biochemical sciences, and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1961. He was trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and became chief resident in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1968. At UCLA, he led cardiovascular research on metabolism during cardiac anoxia and studied glutamate metabolism during anoxia, magnesium in myocardial metabolism, and calcium physiology. Another report published during Shine's presidency, Crossing the Quality Chasm, called for redesign of the U.S. health care system; it is associated with the six aims of care: safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. The reports increased national awareness of quality-of-care and patient-safety issues. He initiated Transformation in Medical Education pilot projects with six-, seven-, or eight-year pathways to the M.D. degree, and brought quality-of-care initiatives to the UT System through the Code Red reports and related work. Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected 1996. John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Individual Achievement (2011). Honorary Doctor of Letters in Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine (2003). Special Recognition Award, Association of American Medical Colleges (2002).